What a mistake. A prime minister cannot protect Canadians during an emergency by amputating his emergency powers, any more than the fire department can fight blazes by leaving its trucks parked in the garage.used emergency powers for mere, so he certainly would do likewise for a killer pandemic. But he would have found a way that left him exposed least to the lashes of Parliament and the premiers.
There are limits. The federal government cannot fight COVID-19 directly. It has no doctors. It has no nurses. It has no hospitals. It has no care homes. Even if Ottawa wanted to usurp the provinces and nationalize the COVID-19 response—which it should not—it is impossible.for COVID-19 control that the provinces must play by.
. To show decency to the provinces it ought to ask the Supreme Court if that order is constitutional, and it very likely would be, because of precedents dating backTo make this easy on the Prime Minister, I’ve drafted an emergency order already—a sample that is close enough to baked that the health minister could order it into law almost instantly, after tweaking it to her liking. You will find it below, and although it is legalese I promise it is simple enough for anyone to understand.
I said the emergency order should be a backstop: unnoticeable, inactive, but which becomes legally binding as soon as a province goes off the rails. The emergency order uses the term “designated province”—one which is in such serious trouble that the emergency order’s disease control rules kick in.
Second, gatherings. All private gatherings at residences stop totally: no dinner parties, no visiting the neighbours, nothing. Your company is your family or housemates. Public gatherings become severely restricted: no more than 10 people outdoors, or five people indoors, except for essential businesses which are not restricted. The numbers are tight to stanch new infections, though adequate for most small-but-not-essential businesses to do curbside deliveries or restaurants to do take-out.
Why is the emergency order so fierce? Because by hammering new infections down hard, the painful path to below the danger thresholds passes faster. Taking a slower path only inflicts longer harm to mental health and businesses, more of which would fail irrevocably. In life, as in epidemiology, it is a truth universally acknowledged: just tear off the damn Band-Aid and get it over with.
You sure you want to keep using this guy as a source? profamirattaran was wrong on Canada's vaccine delivery, psychotic on Alberta's request for field hospitals. Suggest you distance yourself